You’ve all been there: tired and exhausted, you drag your arse out for a run, but a few kilometres in — BOOM — your pain fades and you’re suddenly euphoric. You’ve got a runner’s high — and new research reveals that it’s an evolutionary trait that fine-tuned us to be the ultimate hunter-gatherers.
While there’s been anecdotal evidence floating around for a long time that exercise can help women achieve sexual satisfaction, a new study’s gone and proved it; exercising the core abdominal muscles alone can bring females to orgasm.
This video captures the internet’s entrepreneurial spirit in one single minute. Have an impossible skill you can do? Like, um, being able to bench-press in unique situations? Like, um, while popping a wheelie on your motorcycle? YOU CAN BE FAMOUS.
If board sports are your thing, but the current weather and conditions aren’t ideal for snowboarding, skateboarding, or surfing, this spring-mounted Gyroboard alternative promises to keep you in shape and let you train all year round.
Today an article in The Atlantic discusses “obesogens:” environmental contaminants that some researchers believe are making people fat. Obesogens? Great, another meaningless buzzword we can discuss at dinner parties instead of facing facts: eating too much and not exercising enough is what’s making us fat. Period.
There’s no shortage of scientific research pointing to exercise being good for you, but if you’re just trying to lose weight you probably want all the help you can get. Now, research suggests that caffeine activates the same fat-busting genes as an hour’s exercise. Somebody, pass the espresso.
